Quiz: Memory

In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated

One naturalistic observation of pedestrians found that half of the people on cellphones exhibit unsafe road crossing. This illustrates the impact of

Our inability to consciously process all the sensory information available to us at any single point in time best illustrates the necessity of

While reading a novel, Raoul isn't easily distracted by the sounds of the TV or even by his brothers' loud arguments. This best illustrates

Some information in our fleeting ________ is encoded into short-term memory.

Storage is to encoding as ________ is to ________.

The process of encoding refers to

The process of getting information out of memory is called

Your consciously activated but limited-capacity memory is called ________ memory.

Children can better remember an ancient Latin verse if the definition of each unfamiliar Latin word is carefully explained to them. This best illustrates the value of

Sabrina went to the store for furniture polish, carrots, pencils, ham, sponges, celery, notebook paper, and salami. She remembered to buy all these items by reminding herself that she needed food products that included meats and vegetables and that she needed nonfood products that included school supplies and cleaning aids. Sabrina made effective use of

The conscious repetition of information to maintain it in memory is called

"The Magical Number Seven, plus or minus two" refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory.

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli is called ________ memory.

By shrinking the hippocampus, prolonged stress is most likely to inhibit the process of

Echoic memory refers to

Memory of facts is to ________ as memory of skills is to ________.

After his last drinking spree, Fakim hid a half-empty liquor bottle. He couldn't remember where he hid it until he started drinking again. Fakim's pattern of recall best illustrates

Hearing the word "rabbit" may lead people to spell the spoken word "hair" as "h-a-r-e." This best illustrates the outcome of a process known as

Memories are primed by

Whenever he feels sexually jealous, David is flooded with painful memories of instances when he thought his girlfriend was flirting with other men. David's experience best illustrates

Words, events, places, and emotions that trigger our memory of the past are called

When Tony is in a bad mood, he interprets his parents' comments as criticisms. When he's in a good mood, he interprets the same types of parental comments as helpful suggestions. This best illustrates that our emotional states influence the process of

When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which test of memory is being used?